I CAN’T ASSOCIATE WITH EXTREMISTS (PODCAST)
The sweeping protests that have followed in the wake of George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis have resulted in an overwhelming cross-section of support for a serious attempt to address systemic racism once-and-for-all.
But as Rabbi Dunner points out, bedfellows present a unique danger in popular movements, a lesson that can be drawn from history, and from one of the Torah’s best-known stories – the Korach rebellion.
(For the SoundCloud audio, scroll down) There is a particular kind of self-destructive confidence that exists only at the very top of a brutal regime. It isn’t courage, and it... Read More